At long last the Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce the winners of
its ninth annual WebAward Competition for Web site development. More than 2,100
sites from 33 countries were adjudicated in 95 industry categories during this
year's competition. Entries were judged on design, copy writing, innovation,
content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology. A complete list of
the winning sites can be found at the WebAward Web site at
www.webaward.org

The 2005 Best of Show WebAward is presented to Atlanta -based IQ interactive (www.iqtv.com),
for their outstanding work on "National Geographic – Inside The Mafia" at URL
www.insidethemafia.com. The site was also awarded Best Entertainment
WebAward. To generate interest and viewers for the show, IQ Interactive was
challenged to create a web site as engaging and compelling as the show itself.
With a click, mysterious and intriguing rich media banner ads drive viewers
straight to the full screen immersive interactive experience. Targeting a
lifestyle demographic called New Enthusiasts, this dark and stylistic micro site
engages in an almost game-like way. This discovery based site allows viewers to
explore the world of the mafia through a variety of avenues, from full original
animation, to a variety of video compositions and much more. The goal being to
use video in a way that hasn’t been used before.

Zugara (www.zugara.com) was named Top Agency at the 2005 WebAward Competition,
taking home 20 awards, more that any other organization in the history of the
competition. The Top Agency Award given to recognize the consistently
outstanding development going on at interactive firms. Zugara is headquarted in
Los Angles and took home Best Music site for Red Bull Music Labs, 11 Outstanding
and 8 Standard of Excellence WebAwards.

I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank all of the many judges
who participated in this year’s WebAwards. Our judges are industry leaders who
donate their valuable time and expertise to help set the standard for Internet
excellence. It is an honor and a privilege to work with such an esteemed group
of individuals, without whom the WebAward competition could not go on.

A special thanks goes to all of the great sponsors of the 2005 WebAward
Competition including BURST! Media, Oddcast, NewsUSA, O’Dwyer’s PR Daily, Small
Army Creative Services, Burrelle’s Luce, Line 56 Media, Perseus Software and
PRWeb. The Web Marketing Association thanks it sponsors for helping to make this
annual competition possible.

Bill Rice
President
Web Marketing Association

WebAward
Competition –The
9th annual WebAwards winners are now available on
WebAward.org. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners.

One Paycheck at a Time– This IAC Award winning
Best Financial
Services Interactive Application uses eTools to make a book come to
life for consumers.

Windows IT Pro
Goes for the Gold with IT Prolympics
–this
comprehensive program produced nearly 4000 customer profiles for
Microsoft in three months, as systems and network administrators
took advantage of an exciting opportunity to compete in a technical
challenge and demonstrate their expertise in a core Windows
technology.

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